There are many alternative desktop environments we can try, recently, I wrote a post about MATE Desktop Environment. Today, I'd like to write another alternative desktop environment for Ubuntu that's XFCE.

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

The latest version of XFCE is 4.10 which brings a lot of changes and improvements:

Online Documentation: When you click a Help button Xfce will ask you to go to an online wiki page

Collapsed and expanded view of the Application Finder

New panel behavior "Deskbar Mode" introduced

Session plugin has been merged with a rewritten actions plugin

The window buttons plugin no longer expands, which makes the plugin positioning more flexible.

Applications, which are not a part of Xfce, are listed using an italic font

The settings manager with icons grouped by category and a search filter applied

Settings editor with an open channel monitor, while editing a property in-place

MIME types matching a pattern and a menu for selecting a default application

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